Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 78 51
Rank change year-on-year -34 -27 -7
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,263 1,806 3,338
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.89% 3.63% 4.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 3.94% 5.10%
Number of salaries quoted 850 1,045 2,710
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,312 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +7.41% -14.01%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,778 £87,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £113,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 53,091 45,886 65,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.62% 92.19% 88.28%
Number of salaries quoted 31,704 22,437 50,836
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 13 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -29 1,159 £77,500 +3.51% 521
London +9 649 £87,500 +1.45% 227
Work from Home -21 556 £75,000 +4.18% 337
UK excluding London -92 519 £70,000 +3.70% 382
North of England -34 234 £70,000 +2.94% 118
North West -22 119 £67,500 - 72
South East -107 94 £75,000 +11.11% 133
Yorkshire -41 93 £75,000 +4.18% 25
Midlands -35 63 £71,250 +9.62% 41
South West -63 61 £67,500 -1.50% 49
West Midlands -5 36 £71,250 +1.79% 28
East of England -11 32 £77,500 +34.78% 16
Scotland -84 27 £60,000 -19.86% 20
East Midlands -45 24 £68,000 +4.62% 13
North East -10 22 £70,000 +33.33% 21
Wales -8 7 £54,185 +22.19% 9
Northern Ireland -24 5 £62,500 +16.28% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 27 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
1 27 (2.14%) Apache Spark
1 27 (2.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 24 (1.90%) Apache
3 22 (1.74%) Confluence
4 13 (1.03%) JBoss
4 13 (1.03%) OpenStack
5 11 (0.87%) WebSphere
6 10 (0.79%) CMS
7 7 (0.55%) Appian
7 7 (0.55%) IIS
8 5 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
8 5 (0.40%) nginx
9 3 (0.24%) Liferay
9 3 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.16%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.16%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.079%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.079%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.079%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 18 (1.43%) Maya
2 16 (1.27%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.24%) PlantUML
5 2 (0.16%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 17 (1.35%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.71%) Endur
3 8 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.55%) SAP FS
5 6 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.24%) Shopify
7 2 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.079%) Actimize
8 1 (0.079%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.079%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.079%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.079%) Quorum
8 1 (0.079%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.079%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 695 (55.03%) AWS
2 585 (46.32%) Azure
3 252 (19.95%) GCP
4 224 (17.74%) Serverless
5 176 (13.94%) SaaS
6 123 (9.74%) GitHub
7 112 (8.87%) Azure DevOps
8 97 (7.68%) Amazon EKS
9 94 (7.44%) AWS Lambda
10 92 (7.28%) Amazon S3
11 64 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
12 63 (4.99%) AWS CloudFormation
13 62 (4.91%) Amazon SQS
14 56 (4.43%) PaaS
15 52 (4.12%) GitHub Actions
16 40 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
17 38 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 37 (2.93%) IaaS
18 37 (2.93%) Power Platform
19 36 (2.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.58%) Broadband
2 13 (1.03%) HTTP
3 9 (0.71%) AMQP
4 6 (0.48%) Internet
5 4 (0.32%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.32%) SNMP
5 4 (0.32%) WAN
6 3 (0.24%) MQTT
6 3 (0.24%) Multicast
6 3 (0.24%) Network Security
7 2 (0.16%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.16%) Firewall
7 2 (0.16%) LTE
7 2 (0.16%) SSL
8 1 (0.079%) DHCP
8 1 (0.079%) DNS
8 1 (0.079%) Hyperconnected
8 1 (0.079%) TCAP
8 1 (0.079%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (13.86%) NoSQL
2 162 (12.83%) PostgreSQL
3 135 (10.69%) MongoDB
4 122 (9.66%) SQL Server
5 65 (5.15%) DynamoDB
6 60 (4.75%) Relational Database
7 56 (4.43%) MySQL
8 47 (3.72%) Elasticsearch
9 35 (2.77%) Azure SQL Database
10 33 (2.61%) Redis
11 29 (2.30%) Big Data
12 23 (1.82%) Power BI
13 22 (1.74%) BigQuery
14 21 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
14 21 (1.66%) RDBMS
15 18 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
15 18 (1.43%) Tableau
16 14 (1.11%) DB2
17 12 (0.95%) Pinecone
18 10 (0.79%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 161 (12.75%) Git
2 115 (9.11%) Jenkins
3 63 (4.99%) GitLab
4 55 (4.35%) JIRA
5 46 (3.64%) TeamCity
6 39 (3.09%) JUnit
7 37 (2.93%) Cucumber
8 36 (2.85%) Selenium
9 25 (1.98%) Cypress.io
10 23 (1.82%) Bitbucket
11 22 (1.74%) Mockito
12 20 (1.58%) CircleCI
13 19 (1.50%) JMeter
13 19 (1.50%) Maven
14 17 (1.35%) Oracle Forms
15 11 (0.87%) Postman
16 10 (0.79%) Vite
17 9 (0.71%) REST Assured
18 8 (0.63%) git-flow
18 8 (0.63%) LoadRunner
General
1 376 (29.77%) Finance
2 370 (29.30%) Social Skills
3 143 (11.32%) Banking
4 110 (8.71%) Law
5 105 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
6 81 (6.41%) Public Sector
7 65 (5.15%) Retail
8 58 (4.59%) Financial Institution
9 51 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 43 (3.40%) Telecoms
11 42 (3.33%) Back Office
12 40 (3.17%) Games
13 26 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (1.82%) French Language
14 23 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
15 22 (1.74%) Billing
15 22 (1.74%) Dutch Language
16 18 (1.43%) Legal
17 16 (1.27%) Advertising
18 13 (1.03%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 419 (33.17%) Developer
2 316 (25.02%) Senior
3 245 (19.40%) Software Engineer
4 228 (18.05%) Architect
5 167 (13.22%) Lead
6 112 (8.87%) Senior Developer
7 111 (8.79%) Solutions Architect
8 104 (8.23%) Java Developer
9 103 (8.16%) Full-Stack Developer
10 86 (6.81%) .NET Developer
11 85 (6.73%) Senior Software Engineer
12 84 (6.65%) Java Engineer
13 50 (3.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 50 (3.96%) Lead Developer
14 49 (3.88%) Java Software Engineer
15 47 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
16 45 (3.56%) Software Developer
17 42 (3.33%) Principal Engineer
18 41 (3.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 36 (2.85%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 305 (24.15%) React
2 297 (23.52%) .NET
3 254 (20.11%) RESTful
4 225 (17.81%) Spring
5 211 (16.71%) REST
6 198 (15.68%) Spring Boot
7 185 (14.65%) Kafka
8 181 (14.33%) Node.js
9 128 (10.13%) AngularJS
10 106 (8.39%) .NET Core
11 80 (6.33%) HTML
12 71 (5.62%) .NET Framework
13 62 (4.91%) ASP.NET
13 62 (4.91%) RabbitMQ
14 61 (4.83%) CSS
14 61 (4.83%) gRPC
14 61 (4.83%) Middleware
15 54 (4.28%) ASP.NET Web API
16 49 (3.88%) Hibernate
17 48 (3.80%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 345 (27.32%) Cloud Native
2 202 (15.99%) Distributed Systems
3 130 (10.29%) Enterprise Software
4 104 (8.23%) Product Ownership
5 52 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
6 47 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
7 37 (2.93%) Data Structures
8 35 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
9 33 (2.61%) Algorithms
10 29 (2.30%) Virtual Team
11 27 (2.14%) Blockchain
12 26 (2.06%) AI Agents
12 26 (2.06%) Distributed Architecture
13 19 (1.50%) Public Cloud
14 18 (1.43%) Mobile App
14 18 (1.43%) Over-the-Top Content
14 18 (1.43%) Video\Live Streaming
15 14 (1.11%) Management Information System
15 14 (1.11%) Onboarding
16 13 (1.03%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 52 (4.12%) Linux
2 20 (1.58%) Android
3 19 (1.50%) Windows
4 11 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.40%) CentOS
5 5 (0.40%) Debian
5 5 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.40%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.16%) Unix
6 2 (0.16%) VMS
7 1 (0.079%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 613 (48.54%) CI/CD
2 572 (45.29%) Agile
3 505 (39.98%) DevOps
4 463 (36.66%) Software Engineering
5 330 (26.13%) Containerisation
6 300 (23.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 278 (22.01%) Mentoring
8 276 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
9 249 (19.71%) AI
10 233 (18.45%) Event-Driven
11 221 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 217 (17.18%) Test Automation
13 199 (15.76%) Computer Science
14 157 (12.43%) Scrum
15 154 (12.19%) TDD
16 149 (11.80%) Technical Leadership
17 148 (11.72%) Infrastructure as Code
18 146 (11.56%) Roadmaps
19 142 (11.24%) Architectural Patterns
20 141 (11.16%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 448 (35.47%) Java
2 305 (24.15%) Python
3 280 (22.17%) SQL
4 271 (21.46%) C#
5 256 (20.27%) JavaScript
6 227 (17.97%) TypeScript
7 84 (6.65%) Go
8 30 (2.38%) PHP
9 29 (2.30%) PL/SQL
10 28 (2.22%) Shell Script
11 26 (2.06%) Bash
11 26 (2.06%) C++
12 25 (1.98%) C
12 25 (1.98%) Scala
13 19 (1.50%) Ruby
14 17 (1.35%) Kotlin
15 15 (1.19%) Rust
16 13 (1.03%) PowerShell
17 10 (0.79%) Bicep
18 6 (0.48%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 209 (16.55%) Degree
2 140 (11.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 108 (8.55%) Security Cleared
4 79 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 69 (5.46%) AWS Certification
6 52 (4.12%) Master's Degree
7 47 (3.72%) TOGAF Certification
8 45 (3.56%) Azure Certification
9 38 (3.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 32 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
11 13 (1.03%) DV Cleared
12 12 (0.95%) CISSP
13 11 (0.87%) CISM
14 9 (0.71%) PMI Certification
14 9 (0.71%) PMP
15 6 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.48%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (6.25%) QA
2 28 (2.22%) GDPR
3 27 (2.14%) PCI DSS
4 23 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.95%) NCSC
7 11 (0.87%) NIST
8 9 (0.71%) IFRS
9 8 (0.63%) EMIR
9 8 (0.63%) SLA
9 8 (0.63%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.55%) IFRS 17
10 7 (0.55%) Solvency II
11 6 (0.48%) Data Quality
12 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.32%) SEPA
13 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.24%) GRC
13 3 (0.24%) WCAG
14 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 381 (30.17%) Docker
2 14 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.16%) Firmware
4 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.16%) vSphere
5 1 (0.079%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 383 (30.32%) Kubernetes
2 221 (17.50%) Terraform
3 72 (5.70%) Grafana
4 50 (3.96%) Ansible
5 27 (2.14%) Kibana
6 26 (2.06%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (1.11%) Argo
9 8 (0.63%) Puppet
10 6 (0.48%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.32%) Istio
11 4 (0.32%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.24%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.24%) Rancher
13 2 (0.16%) Cilium
13 2 (0.16%) Nagios
14 1 (0.079%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 164 (12.98%) Microsoft
2 62 (4.91%) Oracle
3 40 (3.17%) Google
4 19 (1.50%) OpenAI
5 18 (1.43%) Guidewire
5 18 (1.43%) Salesforce
5 18 (1.43%) SAP
5 18 (1.43%) Typelevel
6 16 (1.27%) CrowdStrike
6 16 (1.27%) Splunk
7 15 (1.19%) BiZZdesign
7 15 (1.19%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.11%) Software AG
9 13 (1.03%) Red Hat
10 12 (0.95%) Atlassian
10 12 (0.95%) MuleSoft
10 12 (0.95%) Palo Alto
11 11 (0.87%) IBM
12 10 (0.79%) Duck Creek
12 10 (0.79%) Fortinet